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Disney World Transportation: By Bus, Boat, Monorail… or Bad Decision · The Worst: Beyond the Magic

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  SPEAKER_00: Picture this: you've spent$6,000 on a magical family vacation.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've planned for months, you've watched 17 YouTube videos about lightning lanes, and now it's 8 30 at night.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're standing on a Disney bus with 47 exhausted children, someone's backpack pressed against your face, and absolutely nowhere to sit.
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  SPEAKER_01: And your kid's asleep in your arms, and your wife is there carrying the stroller, and you're under wondering why you paid this much money to experience public transportation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome back to The Worst Beyond the Magic.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today we're talking all about buses, boats, monorails, the Skyliner, and minivans.
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  SPEAKER_01: Five different ways to get around Walt Disney World.
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  SPEAKER_01: Which means two grown men are about to spend 40 minutes arguing about public transportation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Living the dream.
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  SPEAKER_01: And at the end, we're going to rank them from best to the worst.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, all right.
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  SPEAKER_01: I like this.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, let's start with the transportation system.
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  SPEAKER_01: Almost everyone at Walt Disney World eventually ends up using the bus.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everyone loves to hate the bus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the bus is great.
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  SPEAKER_00: The guy paying$900 a night for a hotel room is standing next to the guy spending, staying at All Star Sports, and both are holding the same metal pole.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the great equalizer.
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  SPEAKER_01: The great equalizer is right.
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  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't matter who you are, you're on the bus.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everybody gets the same complimentary opportunity to stand next to a stranger's armpit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Disney buses serve most of Walt Disney World, world resorts and hotels and provide transportation as the theme park.
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  SPEAKER_00: They used to go to the airport.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're bringing that back.
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  SPEAKER_00: Disney Springs and other destinations.
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  SPEAKER_01: However, resorts with direct monorail, Skyliner, boat, and walking access may not operate buses to those same destinations.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's kind of confusing.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think some of the resorts that rely really heavy on the bus are the Valley Resorts.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've got All-Star Music, we got All-Star Sports, All-Star Movies.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the moderates still use it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Coronado, Ports Orleans.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: And I gotta tell you, Port Orleans has been great lately.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: I think there's some construction there, but I'm really digging Riverside and French Quarter.
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  SPEAKER_00: What about you?
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  SPEAKER_00: What are some of the other buses that we're they go everywhere, but they do go everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_01: They touch every bit of part of Walt Disney World Resort there is.
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  SPEAKER_01: The deluxe DVC resorts, obviously, the ones that you and I are familiar with because we're bougie AF.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Disney's Animal Kingdom, Jumbo House, Kidani Village, Old Key West, our favorite, Saratoga Springs.
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  SPEAKER_01: Resorts that also use buses are some moderates like Caribbean Beach, Riviera, uh, Riviera, obviously, is DVC, Pop Century, Art of Animation, Wilderness Lodge, Contemporary Polynesian, Grand Floridian, Boardwalk, Yacht Club, Beach Club.
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  SPEAKER_01: These resorts have additional transportation options as well, but other buses service them as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was just thinking about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Disney kind of has its own hop-on, hop off bus.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you want to see, you know, some of those places have like 16 stops around the resort.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you're like, I'm gonna be back to my hotel quick.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then you're like, oh, here's stop one, here's stop two, here's stop three.
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  SPEAKER_00: We should talk about that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's a lot of first-time visitors don't really realize this about that that bus system or these Disney resorts.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not every Disney resort has one bus stop.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some of the resorts have been nor are are huge, and uh the buses make make several stops before it even leaves the property.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know Oaky West, for instance, you get on the bus, you're ready to go.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says it's gonna take you 10 minutes to get to the park.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you've got five stars ahead of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've got Peninsula Road, Southport, Old Turtle, Miller, Hospitality House, Saratoga Springs, the same way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another five stops.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just you gotta you gotta make sure that you're planning these things into your trip, whether you're coming home or or leaving for the thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of the transportation issue takes up your time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then that's and time on those days on your short vacations make up a lot of your logistics.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, you know, shameless plug for us as travel agents.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna help you out with that if you let us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're where you stay on your resort absolutely depends on where you're gonna catch that bus and how long you're gonna be on the resort.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you might think you're 10 minutes from Hollywood Studios, but that's just 10 minutes you finished the grand tour of your own hotel trying to get out of the resort that you're staying at.
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  SPEAKER_00: Congratulations.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've been on the bus for 20 minutes and you're still at Caribbean Beach.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've seen six bus stops, three swimming pools, and somebody's luggage.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you're technically still on vacation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: So your resort size absolutely matters.
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  SPEAKER_01: You hear that, Pete?
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  SPEAKER_01: Size matters.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what I heard.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I heard.
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  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, so going back to Old Key West, going back to Saratoga Springs, uh, Caribbean Beach, again, shameless plug, like Pete said.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna help you out with that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Depending on where you're staying on that property is where that bus is gonna pick you up.
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  SPEAKER_01: What uh for Old Key West specifically, because I'm very familiar with that resort, we like to stay near the hospitality house, which is right near the main the main restaurant, the the main pool, the main bar area there.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's the main pickup, the first and last stop within that resort.
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  SPEAKER_01: So which that's why we like staying right there at rather than staying uh at Turtle Pond Road or one of the other stops on the business.
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  SPEAKER_01: And San Rosario Tucker Springs, you and I have stayed there.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're so large and there's so many different bus stops.
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  SPEAKER_01: You mentioned Port Orleans, uh Riverside, as well as New Orleans, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's another huge resort.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, multiple bus stops within those.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it it does, it does absolutely matter where you pick out your hotel room.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I know when we go to price these things, a lot of times there's a question about do you want a preferred room?
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's it's always like$75 to$100 more a night for a preferred room.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, preferred means like you're gonna be closer to that bus stop.
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  SPEAKER_01: You don't, you're not gonna have to get off the bus and walk a mile to your hotel room because you're gonna be very close to where that bus stop is.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna be very close to where that check-in desk is, that main pool, uh, the main dining area of that resort.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what a preferred room is.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that's something to keep in mind when we go to decide what kind of hotel you want to stay in.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you're on vacation, you want to make sure that you're getting that uh that downtime and not wasting a lot of time with those extra steps.
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  SPEAKER_00: You rather take the steps walking from France to Mexico and drinking along the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Very important.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: So let's talk about let's talk about the Magic Kingdom advantage.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here's something people really don't realize.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you're staying at Disney Resort, the bus usually takes you directly to the Magic Kingdom bus area.
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  SPEAKER_01: But if you drive yourself, you're gonna park at the transportation and ticket center.
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  SPEAKER_01: We lovingly call that the T the TTC, and then take the monorail or the ferry from there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Magic Kingdom is the only place where getting to the front gate requires a side quest.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a special kind of silence on a Disney bus at 11:30 at night.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, everybody's exhausted.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now everyone's reevaluating the financial decisions that brought them there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, at Disney Disney buses, they're they're great.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, they're they're reliable, they come all day long, but it the the buses aren't always the problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's the guests.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, a hundred percent it's the guest.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there is like any type of public transportation, whether you drive them or take the metro here in Washington, D.C., or you take the the L in Chicago or the the MTC in in New York City, whatever transportation it is you take, there's etiquette given within that, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's let's talk about the bus etiquette a second.
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  SPEAKER_01: So people try and bum rush the door when the when the door finally opens when they because they've been waiting for it for 20 minutes, they want to get on the bus.
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  SPEAKER_01: But what's the right thing to do?
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  SPEAKER_01: The right thing to do is wait, wait for the people to get off, wait for the wheelchairs to go ahead of you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and then also give up if you're able to stand and and and hold a uh handrail, give up your seat to an elderly person or somebody who might have some sort of mobility issue.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the right thing to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the right thing to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know with any of this transportation or any transportation you get on, um I always get frustrated when people are trying to barge on to something that I'm trying to get off of.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, if this is an easy process, let the people on the on the transportation off, and then you can get on.
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  SPEAKER_00: It makes it so much faster.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm spending 900 bucks a night to uh get on this bus, and you want me to give up my seat for who?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's something it's something to think about.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's true.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just kidding.
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  SPEAKER_01: For those of you for those parents out there with little kids, strollers, uh, unfortunately, they do make you fold your stroller when you enter into the line or when you get uh before you get on the bus, that's it's a hot tip.
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  SPEAKER_01: Make sure you have the child, your child get out of the stroller and fold the stroller ahead of time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Otherwise, you're gonna kind of be pushed off to the side a little bit and everyone else is gonna go ahead of you on on the bus.
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  SPEAKER_01: So make sure to get that stroller and no higher stroller folds up ahead of time.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then crowds after the fireworks.
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  SPEAKER_01: So let's talk about at the end of the night.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know we like to make fun of, we just mentioned it a number a number of times ago earlier on.
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  SPEAKER_01: 11:30 at night, everyone's exhausted.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everyone walks from the Magic Kingdom over to the bus area to catch whatever their bus is, going home, and it's it's slammed full of people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's that logistics portion or that pre-planning portion, like what's the best way to exit the park after all this, or where whichever one you're at, you know, whether it's the boat, whether it's the monorail, whether it's the buses, and then just keeping in mind that you are with everyone else in this sea of salmon swimming upstream.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, I mean, everybody has to kind of be calm about it in the sense that, you know, I rem even the Skyliner, which I love, I absolutely love as transportation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at the end of the night, when you're leaving Epcot, that line to the Skyliner is huge to get over towards all the uh All-Star and uh Riviera.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it doesn't take long, you know, and if everybody's chill, it's you get it's just one more line you gotta wait in during the day and you know, get your game of heads up going and enjoy the moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it does make it go a little bit smoother.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_00: It's all about having a positive value.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_01: No, yeah, it's that's what it's that's what it's for.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_01: That's what this podcast is for, absolutely.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you know me, and you're the same way.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna go for that that minivan at the end of the night.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not Oh yeah.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: I will take a way to stop.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, yes.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna get there.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna talk about it here towards the end.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it it's gonna be bougie.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_01: You know it.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_01: You know it.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_01: It's 11:30 at night.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm exhausted.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to get back on a bus.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to get back on a bus with a bunch of like 50 to 100 people that smell like they've been at Walt Disney World all day.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to stand next to I don't want to stand next to Uncle Bob's open armpit while I'm holding on to the bar above him.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like that's that's I don't want to be there.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_01: I want to be in my own line, nice, comfortable uh minivan.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe it's gonna be Uber, maybe it's gonna be Lyft, whatever.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: I I don't care.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to be on the bus at that time of night.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_01: Again, we're we're all gonna get there.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_01: We're we'll we'll talk about it here in in just a moment.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm excited about the minivan.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_00: I I have many reasons or many ways that I justify that.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about another one of my favorites, the monorail.
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  SPEAKER_00: Since 1971, this monorail's been around.
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  SPEAKER_00: Disney introduced a monorail as the transportation of tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here we are, 55 years later.
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  SPEAKER_00: Still waiting for tomorrow.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's the future, Jamie.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: It just arrived in 1971.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_01: I wasn't even, I mean, I don't know.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_01: I was not around in 1971.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I think it was everything is major development before 1971.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm glad it's still here today.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: And I think it's very useful, especially for those monorail resorts.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_00: Like the question is often like, why haven't they changed it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why haven't they made it longer?
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_00: But did you do you know that the monorail itself is built in such a way that um, well, it's Florida, right?
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_00: So underneath the topsoil of Florida is um like marsh and like wet swamp, and then there's yeah, swamp.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: And even under that, there's caverns.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_00: So you can't just put this big concrete pylon on the ground.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: They Disney had to drill below all that muck and mire and get through those caverns all the way down to they could hit hard soil or um hard bedrock.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: And so they they they planted in these like you know really expensive posts all the way down really, really deeper than they normally would have to go, just to make this thing get this thing literally off the ground and be safe, of course.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_00: Last thing you need is the monorail coming down on you.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_00: But that type of engineering is just so substantial that it would be really difficult to change the monorail.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_00: So I think they're gonna get what they get.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those three main resorts that are them that are on the monorail are the contemporary, the Polynesian, and the Grand Floridian.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bay Lake Tower is I just I call the contemporary anyway.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it's the same thing, but they're in the same co-located.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, exactly.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: But the Bay Lake folks have to go to the contemporary, and then the villa at the Polynesian, they just go to the Polynesian resort.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_00: But those are the three.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um what about the stops?
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_00: Where do they go from there?
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_00: Can I get to Magic Kingdom every time I get on the monorail?
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: You can, but you kind of have to go.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you can I think they change their route, but from what from what I remember, uh to answer your question, no.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: So you gotta kind of go aroundabout way uh to do so.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the stops at the monorail are the TTC or the transportation ticket center, Disney Polynesian, the Grand Filiburranian, then Magic Kingdom, then Contemporary, and then there is an express monorail that goes from the Transportation Ticket Center to Magic Kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are no resort stops whatsoever.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_01: And then there is at the TTC, they connect to Epcot.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_01: So if you're staying at one of those monorail resorts, like Pete just mentioned, and you want to get to Epcot, you have to take Monorail to the TTC, get off, change trains, and then go to Epcot on the Monorail.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_01: It can be done.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's just something they have to think about, a little bit uh transfer time involved in there.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: So guess guests staying at the monorail resorts must transfer at the TCC uh to get to Epcot by Monorail.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_01: What does the Monorail not serve?
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: Universal.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, our neighbor's Harry Potter Land.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_01: How do we get to Harry Potter Land in Disney?
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_01: There's you know you're gonna hear that question.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: There's someone who's gonna ask that question.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so where they don't go.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: But it's not going.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, where's it going, Pete?
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: Where's it not going?
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_00: Oh no, I was gonna say where it's not going.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_00: What you're saying, I just like to interrupt you.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's my it's my favorite pastime.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: Animal Kingdom, Disney Springs, uh, Wilderness Lodge, Epcot area, where the resorts are anyway.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_00: Skyliner resorts.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we could list everywhere it doesn't go.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_00: I think we just the important part is remembering where it does go.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_01: So in your mind, is the monorail transportation an attraction itself?
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_01: Is it the very first ride that you're on?
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think I was thinking about that earlier when we're getting ready to do this.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: Like the tram from the parking lot is the first ride.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: Like the monorail is definitely the first ride.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: And monorail is an experience in and of itself.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: Like I mean, I love it.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_00: I think you know, if you are lucky enough to stay on that monorail line, it's just the the most convenient thing with the bar crawls that we've discussed in the past.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like there's a nice little monorail bar crawl.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: I think if you're in that, there's the Disney bubble, and then there's the monorail bubble, which is even more fun.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're just like an Epcot Disney uh Magic Kingdom um hotel guy and you stay on that monorail the whole time, I think that's uh that's a a definite approach to it.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm in for that being the first attraction, yes, Jamie.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: I think I think the contemporary, obviously, the contemporary for those who don't know, the contemporary is the hotel that is one of the very first stop on the monorail if you're coming from Magic Kingdom.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_01: It the monorail goes directly through the hotel.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_01: And that I think that's a I mean, that's a huge advantage to stay in there.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_01: Honestly, if you're gonna stay at the contemporary, and I and I have two clients that are staying there like November 2nd, coming up here real soon.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: I told them just just walk.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_01: Just walk from the contemporary over to the Magic Kingdom.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_01: It's a less than 10-minute walk.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's easier than trying to get on the monorail.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: The monorail is cool and all.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but if you're if you're gonna go to Magic Kingdom, just walk outside and and you'll you'll be there in less than 10 minutes.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_01: So I think it burns off those Mickey waffles right away.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_01: It's perfect.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man, this gets you, you're gonna walk all the rest of the day anyway.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: You might as well get started then.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: But it's it's a nice, it's a nice, easy efficient walk.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_01: And speaking of walking, the contemporary, the Polynesian, and the Grand Florida announced if you want to walk from any one of those resorts, there is a nice, safe walking path available to the Magic Kingdom from all three of those resorts.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_01: And it's good for our runners out there too.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_01: So you do you think the monorail is still efficient, even though it was efficient back in 1971?
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I I do think it's it's if uh that's a trick question.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it is efficient.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_00: You can't fit as many people on it, so it tends to take a little bit longer.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: However, you don't have the entire population going to the to needing the monorail.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's still efficient.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_00: And I think if you're on in that in the in in your in the uh monorail bubble deficient, if you're somewhere else, then it's largely avoidable.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_01: Is it more enjoyable than the bus?
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_01: What do you think?
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_01: It's more enjoyable than the bus.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_01: My uh my Spanish is not that great, but I can recite the with the please stand clear of the doors.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_01: Like I I I need a t-shirt.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_01: There's t-shirts with that written out there in Spanish, so I need to get that.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, it's it's way more fun, way more efficient than again.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_01: You just have to understand the direction that it's going ahead of time.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_01: Because if you think you're gonna leave the contemporary and go directly to the Magic Kingdom, uh-uh.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_01: You got you got a little bit of a ride, you're going the opposite direction.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_01: People pay serious money to stay at the monorail resort.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: Of course I do.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing says luxury like paying$800 a night so you don't have to sit on a bus.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_01: That's 100% worth it.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_01: Worth every penny.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: That's because you're financially irresponsible, as am I.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's 100% true.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_00: So the monorail is Disney's best attraction that doesn't require a park ticket.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_01: You agree?
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: Would you pay, yeah, no, would you pay$100 more a night or more than$100 a night to stay at a monorail resort?
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_01: I think it all depends on what you're looking for.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, agreed.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_00: I mean my favorite monorail resort is the Polynesian.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_00: As a DVC member, I own at the Polynesian, and I do really love that perk of that.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I think it's worth it.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: And I think I would pay more or spend more points as a DVC member on those.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_00: But but I'm telling you that the Skyliner is one of Disney's best ideas.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: The Skyliner! Set you up for that one.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_01: You sure did.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for that.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_01: It was that was a layup.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_01: I got it.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_01: I caught it.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: But the Skyliner's great.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_01: It is, it is great.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, the Skyliner is one of the one of Disney's best ideas out there.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, until the wind picks up.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's it's it's perfectly safe.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_00: That's exactly what somebody says right before the gondola stops moving.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_01: Speaking of that, have you seen the rescue boat for those?
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, I had to bring up the rescue boat and the like the rescue analytics of that.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_01: Have you seen that?
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: So when the Skyliner goes over the water, have you seen the boat that comes out to rescue them?
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_01: I have not, no.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my God, it's cool.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_01: So it's, I mean, it's it's genius.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's nothing more than like a large tower staircase on it with a platform.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_01: And so when you're stuck somewhere hanging over the water, you don't have to worry about, you know, Captain Hook's crocodile coming to get you.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_01: This boat will come out and and it'll it'll come right up to the door, and the door will somehow open, or however that's gonna happen.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_01: And then you just walk out onto the platform and down the stairwell.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_01: It's that easy.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_01: Like it, it's like it's it's genius.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like they knew exactly that that was gonna happen.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: So Jamie the firefighter is all on board, nerding out on this one.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: Unless you're afraid of heights and you gotta get down those steps.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: Don't be afraid of heights.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_01: There's no reason to.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_01: It's fine.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just saying the heights might be the height the heights are not gonna kill you.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: It's the fall or it's the landing.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_01: Anyways.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: Or the bounce.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, so the Skyliner is all well and grid, and we love it.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_01: And that's the newest mode of transportation that that's been there since we were kids.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_01: I'm glad I I hope and I wish that they would expand that.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_01: And I think I hope that there's plans for that.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_01: You I can't imagine they haven't talked about that.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_01: Where where would you think that they'd want to expand that to?
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_01: Where would you want them to expand that to?
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, uh any of the other parks or any other resorts, but it I think it's just a matter of whatever right-of-way they have.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I know they own the whole property, but I think it's just logistics of getting over roads and sticking those pylons into the into the bedrock and how much that costs.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_00: With the success of this, I I I agree.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: Which of the hotels have it?
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_00: And which ones do?
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: We've got Caribbean Beach Resort, right?
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: What what else?
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: Riviera, pop century, art of animation.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so that's not I mean, that's not a lot, right?
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: And that's all in one section.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: So I think if we can spread that out, the that I I I think you know where it needs to go, it needs to go to Animal Kingdom Lodge.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_01: Animal Kingdom Lodge is just out there in the middle of the year.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Of nowhere.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_01: And even if you're staying even if you're staying at Animal Kingdom Lodge, you have to take a bus from Animal Kingdom Lodge to the Animal Kingdom, which is still like a 20-minute drive.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_01: So I think if they could connect that and then direct route from there to Animal Kingdom, that would be a huge bonus for that.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_01: Let's write them a letter.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: Hey guys.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: We need the Dizzy executives to clearly listen to our podcast, which I don't think they're doing.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: We probably don't want them to.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_01: So where does a Skylar not go, Pete?
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_01: Where does it not go?
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, actually, all right.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: Use a joke again.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: Where does a Skyliner go to Epcot?
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: Tell me where it goes.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so this is one of my favorites.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: I used to have the fight about whether we're starting in Mexico or Canada, but I don't I no longer have that fight because I'm starting in France.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna take the Skyliner over to the international gateway entrance between the United Kingdoms and France pavilions, and then I'm gonna head right towards France and uh start my day.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_00: Get your$35 glass of champagne.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_00: Not anymore.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's too expensive.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_01: Come on, Disney.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_01: Too much.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_01: It also goes to Hollywood Studios, and at Hollywood Studios it actually drops you off right near the front of the park, so you don't have far to go to right to your your park entrance.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_01: I really like that about Hollywood Studios.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um and like like Pete's saying, for the for Epcot, you have a choice to make.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_01: Either you can take, you can walk in or you can take the monorail, which will drop you off by the giant ball by spaceship earth.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_01: Or you like Pete's saying, you can take the Skylander and come in the back door.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: Hey yo, at the back door, you're gonna go walk right into the international gateway.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_01: All right, so the lines connect to Caribbean Beach.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_01: Caribbean Beach is the main transfer hub.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_01: So if you get on at Art of Animation or Pop Century, you're gonna go directly to Caribbean Beach where you're gonna get off, you're gonna change lanes or change uh change skyliners, and you're gonna go on from there.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_01: And then it takes you directly to Hollywood Studios, Epcot, and of course it you it can take you back to Pop Century and Art of Animation.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_01: And of course, your favorite resort and mine, which is Riviera.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_01: The Rive, exactly.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_01: The luxury resort the Riviera is.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_01: They're all located on Epcot line.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_01: So you're gonna travel towards Caribbean Beach to connect to Hollywood Studios.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: Pop Century Art of Animation has a shared Skyliner station.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_01: So if you're seeing either one of those, you you have to walk towards the middle, towards the lake, and you both meet up together and get on the same Skyliner.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_01: You transfer it to Caribbean Beach, which we just mentioned a second ago, and uh other resorts near Epcot station.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_01: Do you know where they are P?
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I do.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: I think this is great too.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, because with uh going back to pop century art animation, you there it's not just the Riviera or an expensive deluxe resort that gets you on the Skyliner.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_00: Like you've got some pop century art of animation, you've got more of the moderate and value ones that you can still get the Skyliner.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_00: And then it's great because if it's dropping you off at Epcot, like you were just saying, you can get to Boardwalk, you can walk to yacht club, beach club, swan, and dolphin.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like those are all great.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, and I love that the bar boardwalk is right there.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_00: I think once we finally started using the Skyliner, it's the first time I ever started going on the boardwalk.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_00: And it's uh it's it's just a nice little addition for if you are there more often than not, like we are.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_01: So to Pete's point about where the Skyliner does not go, it doesn't go to Harry Potter Land over Universal.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: It also doesn't go.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_01: The joke never gets old.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_01: No, it does also doesn't go to Magic Kingdom, it doesn't go to Disney Springs, and it does not touch the monorail resorts.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_01: So Caribbean Beach is basically the Atlanta airport of Disney transportation.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, everybody connects there.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: And somehow you're you're still not entirely sure you're going the right direction.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_00: All right, let's discuss this further.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_00: I love the monorails.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_00: Are you going to travel if you're not staying at a Skyliner resort?
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_00: Are you going to still go ahead and take the Skyliner just to get on it like it's a ride?
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I am.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_01: I think I think it's fantastic for fireworks viewing because you catch both.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_01: I think, weren't we with you when I accidentally I thought, yeah, I thought that Hollywood Studios had like extra magic hours that night, and then we were like hustling to get to Magic Bad or Hollywood Studios, and I scanned in and the cast members like, you have five minutes.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, haha, you're open late tonight.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_01: And they're like, Yeah, no, you're not.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_01: No, they're not.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_01: And so I turned around and came back out with my head held down.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_01: So we got right back on the Skyliner, and then what happened?
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_01: We got to view the fireworks from Epcot off the Skyliner.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_01: Like it was beautiful.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_01: Heck yeah.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_01: That was a unplanned surprise, right?
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_01: Totally had that planned the whole time.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_01: Disney magic.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_01: But it it is beautiful, and it's it's a lot of fun.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I don't know about you, but if you notice you kind of pick up speed when you're going directly back into like a port, like when you're about to like a transport station, it's fun.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_01: Like it's a good time.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_00: It's like the dip on pirates.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_01: I think at the convenient, and you brought up a great point about how it touches every section or every option of resort style.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_01: So if you want to stay super bougie at the Riviera, like Pete and I do, or you want to stay at the Caribbean Beach, which is moderate, and then your value resorts, Art of Animation and Pop Century, it touches all three of those.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_01: So you have all fantastic options, and you still have that Skyliner access.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_00: Which is a huge bonus.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_00: I think, you know, even when it's hot, you've got the ventilation system that they've got on there, which blows right through the cart.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_00: It hasn't been terrible.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's been a little chilly up there when we went in January, but you know, it's chilly everywhere at that point in time.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_01: And also for a stroller convenience for those parents out there listening, not like the buses where you have to fold up your stroller.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_01: You can have the it's lay the child is sleeping.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to fold up the stroller.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_01: You can roll the stroller right onto the monorail.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_01: It's no big deal.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_01: They'll let you do that.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_01: The same goes with the monorail.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_01: You can roll your stroller right onto the monorail.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to stop and fold it up.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_01: So that's another nice convenient aspect of the Skyliner.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_00: Do you think that fear of heights is important for people?
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like I know, you know, you're a firefighter, I was a paratrooper.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_00: It's not really for us, but do you think once you're up there, it's scary or no?
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_01: So there's there's a tiny bit of difference.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_01: Being on top of a 110-foot ladder, doing some work on it is fine, right?
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_01: You're up against a building or you're like a pair put walls, something.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_01: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane is crazy punk.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's that's something that I'm not gonna do.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_01: Since the guy that goes into a burning building, God bless you, sir, for jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: There's a huge difference.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_01: But I think I think it adds a like a major convenience factor to it, just like the Monterey Resorts do.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_01: I'd rather be stuck on the Skyliner for 30 minutes and then stand in a pack bus for 15 minutes.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_00: No question about it.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so is it the best uh transportation system?
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_00: Is it the best?
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_01: I I don't know if it's the best, but I think it it's I think it's right up there.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_01: And we'll talk more about that towards the end of the episode, but I I think it's it's right up there, very close to the monorail.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I think it's great.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_00: And like you said, we'll talk about it.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_00: But I think for whatever thing that you need that day, um it can be the best.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: For instance, you know, you might just want a relaxing boat ride.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_00: Boats and ferries, the scenic route.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: I think there's I think there's something relaxing about taking a boat across the Seven Seas Lagoon.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, absolutely.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_01: You could see the castle, feel the breeze, enjoy the nice scenery.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_01: See, you agree with me finally.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_00: Until I realized I could have been on Space Mountain 20 minutes ago.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it takes a minute, but it is again, I think it's another it feels like you're on a ride or you're doing an experience.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_00: You're on a like an adventure.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_00: So I mean, the big boat, a small boat, I I think you know it's it's worth those extra few minutes to take it.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_00: So tell me where it goes.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_00: Where where am I going to pick a boat up?
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_00: Goodness.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_00: This so there's lots of boats, right?
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: So we've got the large failure boats that cross the Seven Seas Lagoon, and they'll go from the transportation center to Magic Kingdom.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_00: And then we've got the resort boats, and they have the smaller boats, and they'll have Wilder Lodge, Fort Wilderness, Grand Floridian, the Polly.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_00: What else?
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_00: There's other watercrofts I'm forgetting, right?
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_01: The friendship boats.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_01: The friendship boats you're gonna find over near the Epcot Resorts.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_01: So, and Epcot and Hyod Studios in the River Walk.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_01: So the boardwalk, Yacht and Beach Club, Swan and Dolphin.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_01: Just a quick point about Swan and Dolphin.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_01: Swan Dolphin is technically on Disney property, but they are not Disney hotels.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_01: So you get all the same benefits at the Swan and Dolphin, but it is a Marriott property.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_01: Whole nother discussion for another day.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_01: But just so you know the difference.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, those friendship boats, I definitely wouldn't recommend park hopping during the day.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_00: It's not like if you're gonna go from one to another.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not a park hopper, but if you're if you need to get from Hollywood Studios to Epcot or vice versa, that friendship boat and the walkway are the best way to do it.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_01: No, 100% they are.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_01: 100% they are, yeah.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_01: Also, there are Disney Springs boats.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_01: So over that connect you to Disney Springs.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_01: So over at Port Orleans Riverside, uh there is a boat system that picks you up there.
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_01: It could take you back and forth to Disney Springs.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_01: It also can take you to uh the French Quarter side of Port Orleans, Old Q West as well, and Saratoga Springs.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_01: If you're staying there.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, if you're staying there.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_01: And these boats don't go directly to the theme parks.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_01: They basically go between those resorts we just mentioned and Disney Springs.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_01: Have you ever done the boats, the friendship boats that operate on the World Showcase Lagoon?
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_01: I have.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_01: I have I've taken it occasionally.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_01: If it's sitting there on the side of the lake that I'm on, and we want to go across to the World Showcase, yeah, heck yeah.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_01: You can get on that and you can go directly across and I don't remember where it drops you off, but it drops you off in in the in the world showcase from the opposite side.
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_01: So I think it picks up somewhere nearby the uh journey of water by Moana.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_01: Like just outside of that is is a friendship boat.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_01: And it'll take you directly across that lake uh and into the world showcase if you don't want to make the walk all the way around.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_00: That's cool.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_00: I've never done that, but it I've I I'm thinking it might cut down on some steps if you're trying to get across the park in a hurry.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_01: Friendship boats are great because they take you from Epcot uh to Hollywood Studios.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's a beautiful ride.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_01: And by the time you arrive, you're ready to make three new friends and forgotten why you were going to Hollywood Studios in the first place.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_01: Now you can take a boat from Port Orleans to Disney Springs.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_01: Which is great because uh Disney provides complimentary transportation to go spend another$400.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_01: So thoughtful of them.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_01: So boats versus walking.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_01: So you mentioned the friendship boats from the Apcot area, and you said there's a great walking path there as well.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_01: Have you ever walked from those areas?
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_00: I have.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's it's really nice.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_00: And a lot of people don't do it, so it's kind of a relaxing it takes a minute to do it.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_00: But if you're you know you're not in a hurry, you're there for a while, I definitely recommend it.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I that walking path from the Apcot area resorts that we mentioned goes directly to Apcot, of course, and it goes to Hollywood Studios.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_01: How far would that walk do you think it is?
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_01: Do you think it's like 10 to 15 minutes on the walking path?
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean I think I would give yourself about 20 minutes.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_00: You think that looks like it's not?
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_00: I it just dep it just depends on the crowds and whatnot.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um but once you're on the path, it's typically open and there's not a lot of people.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_01: Is there a boat that you would it's worth choosing for a particular resort?
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_01: So would you rather would you say it is because of the boat?
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_00: I think I'm trying to remember the w when we stayed at the contemporary, it is nice because it has the monorail and the boat.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_00: The boat um will get you over to wilderness.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_00: We really like the hoop-de-doo review, so we will take that boat over there.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_00: So in that sense, the contemporary is a really nice choice because of all three options, or or three of the options, which you've got the bus, the monorail, and the boats.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_01: And those stating that Wilderness Lodge will have to take a very large ferry boat from there to the Magic Kingdom.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_01: That's the only mode of transportation to the Magic Kingdom outside of a bus from Wilderness Lodge.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_01: And then from the Grand Floridian, you have uh several choices, including the boats, the smaller boats, but they get you to Magic Kingdom as well.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, you have the monorail from there or the walking path in there also.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_01: But there's a lot of great water taxi options that you can take.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_01: And again, there's no charge for that.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_01: It's all part of Disney transportation, just like the buses.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_01: Once you've paid to be a resort guest, all of that's included in free.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_01: So people that go and want to get a rental car, I think it's kind of extra money you don't really need to spend because you have all these transportation options.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I really feel like the Disney boats are the best transportation systems because they actually feel like it's part of the vacation.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_00: I hate to keep putting that bus down, but you're not jammed in there in someone's armpit with a screaming baby, and you know, someone's dripping their ice cream on you.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_00: It's, you know, you're out there, you can you're on the lagoon, you got your pirate mode activated.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's it's part of the vacation.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_00: All right, loving the boats, but let's get on to the the the outlier here, the one that you have to pay for.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's Disney's most expensive shortcut, the minivan.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_00: Pete, do you know what a minivan is?
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's a Disney Uber or a Disney Lyft, I should say.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_01: Except Disney put polka dots on it and figured they'd charge you a lot more because of it.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_01: The the good news is though, you get a cast member driving, which is nice.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_01: For that price, I expect Minimouse herself to pick me up.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_01: All right, let's explain what what is the minivan to people who don't know.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_01: So the minivan is owned and operated by Walt Disney World.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_01: And what it is, and it's a tiny bit confusing, you do need to have the Lyft app on your phone in order to activate one and in order to call one.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_01: You're calling one just like you would any other car service.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so when you open up your on Disney property, you open up your Lyft app, you have the option of choosing a minivan.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_01: So minivans are driven by Disney Cast members, not by regular Lyft drivers or Uber drivers.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_01: They're mem, they're actual Disney cast members.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_01: What else do they have?
• 36:34
  SPEAKER_01: They offer Pete.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_01: What distinguishes them between just a regular lift?
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, this is the best part.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_00: Got me sleeping here.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_00: Red vehicles with the white polka dots.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_00: They look like uh something that Minnie Mouse herself had created and would drive.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's uh it's cute.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like we've got a couple of selfies in front of our minivans and stuff, so it definitely adds to the experience of the trip.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_00: More immersive, if you will.
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_01: Now, the difference between a minivan and a regular Lyfter Uber, Disney, of course, does offer Lyft or Uber on Disney property.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_01: So if you want to call either one of those car services, they will come and get you at a much lesser cost than getting a minivan.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_01: But like Pete's saying, with the minivan, you're gonna get that extra special touch.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be a Disney cast member.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_01: There's gonna be Disney music playing in the car.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_01: It's either gonna be a Chevy Traverse or Chevy Suburban or a Tahoe.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be one of those three vehicles.
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_01: And of course, you're gonna have a Disney cast member driving you around a property.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_01: So they're happy to answer questions, uh, talk to you all about your day, give you like little uh extra experiences that you wouldn't normally get from just a regular Uber or Lyft driver.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, those minivans are gonna take you on property or locations around.
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we're gonna do the hotels, the magic, the parks, Hollywood studio, et cetera.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_00: But they can also go to the Four Seasons Resort in Orlando, Shades of Green, which is on property, um, Swan and Dolphin, like Jamie was talking about earlier, the Swan Reserve, and availability and operating hours vary.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_00: So you probably aren't gonna get at two o'clock in the morning like you could a normal Uber or Lyft.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_01: So there is a Magic Kingdom advantage for this.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_01: So minivans can drop you off directly at Magic Kingdom's entrance rather than at the transportation ticket center where ordinary rideshare guests generally get dropped off.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_01: So if you take a regular Uber or Lyft, they're gonna take you to the TTC.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_01: They can't take you to directly to the front of the park like a minivan can.
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's a great advantage.
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_00: Another good advantage is the uh standard minivan can accommodate up to six.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_00: So if you get a minivan, you can get your two-child safety seats available.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_00: You've still got the CAF member, you got that private transportation for your whole family.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_00: So it's definitely a convenient family or dining option to get you to your dining reservations.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_01: Pete, you mentioned a second ago hoop-to-do review over at the wilderness resort, right?
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_01: At uh Camp Wilderness.
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_01: So if you take the bus over there, they're gonna drop you off.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_01: I know this goes back to way back to the very beginning of the podcast.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_01: We were talking about different buses and we're gonna drop you off.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_01: If you take the bus out there, they're gonna drop you off at the very beginning, and then you have to beat feet all the way through the wilderness area to uh pass past all the RBs, past all the tents, past all the cabins to where hoop to do review is.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_01: If you take a minivan from anywhere on property, they take you directly to the front door of where the hoop to do review is, worth its weight in gold.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you are paying for convenience on this one, but it does.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_00: It's nice because you know, you take that bus to wilderness and then you're taking another bus, and like you said, passing all that other stuff.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_00: And for me, I'm so excited to get there and get my belly full of all you can eat fried chicken and and yingling.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, we're going, we're going into River.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_00: I can't wait.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_00: I can't wait.
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_00: I'm excited.
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I love hoop to do.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, if you've this is I love it.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_00: If you've got little kids, the car seat alone can make it worth it.
• 39:55
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_01: So after carrying a sleeping five-year-old across Magic Kingdom, I'd rather have paid for a helicopter, but Disney's working on it.
• 40:04
  unknown: Yeah.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_01: Can you imagine Premier Helicopter Pass starting at$799 per person?
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_01: Someone would someone will do it.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_01: Someone will absolutely keep doing it.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_00: And you know who it is?
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's us.
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_01: Where do someone?
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_01: I would absolutely I would, but you'd be the army guy standing in, it was like sitting in the doorway, right?
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, heck yeah.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_01: Ready, ready to fast rope out of that thing.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_00: I know you're paying for it, so I think it should be in a separate category than everything else.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_00: But if you're clumping all this together, which is important, I think you know, being able to move around quickly in the park saves you more time for the Disney magic.
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_00: So if you have late night travel, resort to resort transportation, or families that need car seats, I think it's it's worth it.
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_00: But but my big question out of this one is is it worth paying when all the other stuff is complimentary?
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_01: I it's it's all about what experience that you want.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_01: I think you hit the nail on the head when you said it.
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_01: If it's late night travel, the park is closed down, this is gonna be the option I'm gonna pick, right?
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_01: And here's a tip on that like 30 minutes before park close or after fireworks or whatever, go ahead and order that minivan.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna take a while to get to you.
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_01: And by the time that the fireworks are finished and you walk towards the front of the park, then they're gonna be able to pick you up.
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_01: So if you walk out of the park and then order one of those minivans, it's gonna take a long time for one of those to get to you.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_01: And you're gonna see buses come and go in that that whole entire time before you're rate for your private ride.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_01: But just give it, give it a little bit of grace and give it, anticipate that time a little bit and order that ride before you ever leave the park and then walk out there.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_01: I think that's probably the best, best way to go ahead and call one of those.
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_01: I think the main demand is 100% worth it.
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like you said, you are paying more.
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna pay a premium price for that.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_01: But it's all part of that Disney magic.
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's all part of that experience that you're gonna get.
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_01: If you want that higher, elevated level of experience.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_01: Certainly Disney is gonna offer it to you, and this is how they do it.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_01: Here we are, ranking the worst transportations five stars to the worst.
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_01: Remember five stars?
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_01: Five stars.
• 42:07
  SPEAKER_01: Got smot pack.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_01: Pete, we spent almost 40 minutes now, almost an hour, talking about the five ways to move people around Disney theme park.
• 42:18
  SPEAKER_01: And somehow we've convinced people we're experts.
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we're two just two grown men arguing about buses and boats.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I never knew that this would be what adulthood looked like.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_01: That and Bill's.
• 42:32
  SPEAKER_01: It's the worst.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_01: It's the worst.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_01: All right, so we want to do it.
• 42:36
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna we're gonna rank it uh just like we did in the past.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_01: Number one is the worst, and uh number five, five stars is the best.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_01: You got it?
• 42:45
  SPEAKER_01: Got it.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_01: All right, here we go.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_01: Transportation, Disney buses.
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna let you let you eat this one first.
• 42:54
  SPEAKER_00: Go for it.
• 42:54
  SPEAKER_00: What do you got?
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna get and we can we can only rank one of these each number.
• 42:59
  SPEAKER_00: So Oh, you want to play that game?
• 43:01
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't think we were gonna play the game, but okay.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_00: Oh no, no.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know, I think you gotta rank them.
• 43:06
  SPEAKER_00: So let's see.
• 43:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna go buses is five for me.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_00: While they're very useful, they're the ones I'll probably use most often.
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um they're crowded, they're long, I'm always cranky.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I don't see the plus side to the buses when it comes to feeling like a ride or scenery.
• 43:23
  SPEAKER_00: It just feels like you're on a city bus.
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna give that one a five.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_00: Although they're very useful.
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_00: Hold on now.
• 43:29
  SPEAKER_00: Five is the best.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_00: Five is five stars.
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_00: Shoot.
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_00: No, no five stars.
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_00: And they're getting a one star, one star, one star.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_01: You get one star.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_01: The worst.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_01: So so buses are the worst mode of transportation.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 43:43
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna I'm gonna disagree with you.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna disagree with you.
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_01: So the worst mode of transportation, this is strictly a time, like that's the only thing I'm talking about is time and how long it takes.
• 43:55
  SPEAKER_01: The boats are the worst mode of transportation because it does take longer.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_00: Killing me.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_01: What's going on with you?
• 44:02
  SPEAKER_01: It is beautiful.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_01: Don't get me wrong.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's a gorgeous bow ride.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_01: I love it, right?
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's something going across the Seven Seas Lagoon, leaving the Grand Florida Polynesian or wherever you're leaving from.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_01: It's beautiful, right?
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_01: You you turn the corner on the lake and you see Cinderella Castle.
• 44:17
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's beautiful.
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_01: Not arguing that point.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_01: But as far as like time savings go and like getting from point A to point B in a in a rapid fashion, the boat is not what you want.
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_01: So I I think I think the boat is number one for me.
• 44:31
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you enjoy being packed in a metal can like sardines while I'm out being Jack Sparrow on the seven C's.
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_00: But why is the rum gone?
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
• 44:45
  SPEAKER_00: All right, all right.
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know, it's America.
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_00: You can be wrong.
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's fine.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_00: Monorail.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_00: And what you think?
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_00: Monorail.
• 44:53
  SPEAKER_00: Monorail.
• 44:54
  SPEAKER_00: That's tough.
• 44:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 44:54
  SPEAKER_00: The monorail for me is number three.
• 44:57
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to give that three stars.
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 45:00
  SPEAKER_00: So I enjoy it.
• 45:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think it's great.
• 45:03
  SPEAKER_00: I love the monorail bar crawl.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but it's it's inconvenient if you're not in the mini monorail bubble.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_00: So for me, it's three stars.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_01: So I am, I know it's boring, but I might agree with you on that one.
• 45:19
  SPEAKER_01: I would give that, I would give that right it right in the middle.
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_01: I I know you're excited to get to the Skyliner.
• 45:23
  SPEAKER_01: We're going to talk about it next.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_01: I know.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_00: You can't look at me chomping at the pit.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_01: It's it is inconvenient for those not staying at one of the monorail resorts.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_01: But if you are paying that premium and you want that, that that there's a bubble within a bubble, like you said.
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_01: You're there's a Disney bubble, and then there's a monorail bubble.
• 45:41
  SPEAKER_01: If you're staying on a monorail bubble, heck yes.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_01: Like it's it's amazing, right?
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_01: Like it's it's your own private transportation train that comes directly to your doorstep.
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's uh it's incredible.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_01: And it gets you to basically everywhere you want to go.
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't go to all resorts, but it does, it can take you to most of the parks except for Animal Kingdom.
• 46:03
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_01: So I I have to agree with you.
• 46:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's right right in the middle.
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_01: All right, your favorite, Pete.
• 46:08
  SPEAKER_01: Take it away.
• 46:08
  SPEAKER_01: The Skyliner.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_00: Man.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_00: All right, I'm paying attention now.
• 46:13
  SPEAKER_00: The Skyliner.
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, it is my favorite.
• 46:16
  SPEAKER_00: And like I said, I really enjoy it.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_00: I enjoy the scenery of it.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_00: I like looking out, whether it's day or night, and seeing all of the either the fireworks or the the a little bit of the behind the scenes, behind the cast members, behind the curtain, seeing all that.
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_00: And then um the access to the parks.
• 46:34
  SPEAKER_00: I just think it's a great ride.
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's a great way to meet people where you're not meeting everybody on the bus, but you're meeting your fellow uh Skyliner attendees, which is only a couple other people.
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_00: I've always I've had a great time with it.
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_00: I highly recommend five stars.
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_00: I have to agree with you.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_01: I think the Skyliner is a fantastic uh thing that Disney had out a number of years ago.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_01: I remember when they were building it, we're like, man, what's gonna happen?
• 46:56
  SPEAKER_01: How's it gonna look?
• 46:57
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's incredible, it's incredible.
• 46:59
  SPEAKER_01: The only downfall to it is if you're not going to Hollywood Studios, if you're not going to Epcot, then there really isn't other than the Skyliner barcal, obviously, then what what we always want to do, right?
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_01: But there's really not a reason to be on it if you're not going to one of those two parks.
• 47:16
  SPEAKER_01: And if you're not staying anywhere on the Skyland or one of those resorts, then it's kind of it's just is just kind of out there.
• 47:23
  SPEAKER_01: I know we talked about what we want them to expand it to, but for me, I I'm gonna give it I'm gonna give it a four.
• 47:29
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna give it four stars.
• 47:31
  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_01: Four stars.
• 47:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I don't disagree with you there.
• 47:36
  SPEAKER_00: I think you're absolutely right.
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it is very specific and it's the it's a bit hypocritic, hypocritical of me because I said the the monorail bubble.
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_00: There's still a Skyliner bubble, too.
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're not in that bubble for the Skyliner, then it's not useful.
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_00: But hey, I do what I want.
• 47:54
  SPEAKER_00: Five stars.
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_00: All right, boats and fairies.
• 47:58
  SPEAKER_00: Boats and fairies.
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, boats and fairies.
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_00: Love them.
• 48:02
  SPEAKER_00: Love them.
• 48:03
  SPEAKER_00: I am gonna give them uh I got a four-star rating left and a two-star rating left.
• 48:08
  SPEAKER_00: Uh let's see.
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna give them four stars because I, you know, I'm in the army, which is a ground force, but I'm in Maine right now visiting my family, and I have a great love for anything nautical and being on the water.
• 48:21
  SPEAKER_00: So I might take a little bit longer, but I do love the boats, all of them.
• 48:26
  SPEAKER_00: The friendship boat, the big boat, uh, all of them.
• 48:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like I I'm I'm a big fan, so I'm gonna give them four stars.
• 48:32
  SPEAKER_01: I don't even I appreciate the fact that you remember what numbers you have, because I don't I don't remember where I am.
• 48:37
  SPEAKER_01: So I I I I like the boats as far as like saving time and getting to point A to point B in a rapid fashion.
• 48:46
  SPEAKER_01: That's not what you want to take.
• 48:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's beautiful, it's fun, it's it's a great relaxing ride on a boat with the sea breeze, you know, the leak breeze in your air, but it's it's just not pros and cons, right?
• 48:58
  SPEAKER_01: Like anything else.
• 48:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but I think um two.
• 49:03
  SPEAKER_01: A two.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 49:05
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_00: That that leaves us to a two is all I have left.
• 49:11
  SPEAKER_00: So a two is what I'm gonna give the minivans.
• 49:14
  SPEAKER_00: While I love the minivans, I will use them.
• 49:17
  SPEAKER_00: I think they're fantastic, especially late at night when you're just spent and you don't want to deal with anything else.
• 49:23
  SPEAKER_00: But the the the fact that there's a price attached to it is the only reason they are rated so low.
• 49:28
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I'll give them two stars, just slightly above the bus.
• 49:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, because one, they're not the bus, and I'll do most things to avoid the bus.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I mean they're super convenient, but you got to pay for it.
• 49:40
  SPEAKER_00: So that's why they're yeah.
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, uh, for me, five stars.
• 49:44
  SPEAKER_01: Uh minivan gets gets the five stars.
• 49:46
  SPEAKER_01: You get you're getting that super elevated service at Disney Touch.
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_01: You're getting that experience that uh you you have to pay to get for.
• 49:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, it's not included, like Pete said, in your regular Disney resort package price.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_01: There is an extra price to that.
• 49:59
  SPEAKER_01: You're going to Disney, you're gonna spend money anyway.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_01: You know it ahead of time.
• 50:03
  SPEAKER_01: Why not have that little bit of extra service that they offer and get that minivan and take you directly door to door wherever you want to go on Disney property?
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_01: No waiting, just you and your family, whoever it is that you're writing with, privately uh with a Disney cast member, uh, enjoying those nice, comfortable seatings and the Tahoes and their suburbans.
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_01: And it's just it's just fantastic.
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_01: Like everything about them is fantastic.
• 50:24
  SPEAKER_01: And if you want to be extra bougie, which I've had at least one client family of mine do, is they'll come and pick you up at Orlando International Airport and they'll take you to Disney property from there as well.
• 50:35
  SPEAKER_01: Now, there is a price I'm not sure is worth paying, but they will do it.
• 50:40
  SPEAKER_01: They'll pick you up from there as well.
• 50:41
  SPEAKER_01: So they'll be waiting for you in baggage claim and then take it directly out to your meeting ram from there.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_01: All right, Pete.
• 50:47
  SPEAKER_01: The big last question the worst transportation at Walt Disney World, mine versus yours.
• 50:53
  SPEAKER_00: What was yours?
• 50:54
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the worst for me would be the buses.
• 50:57
  SPEAKER_00: I love them, they're convenient, they're they're they're trustworthy, but I just don't love the how long it takes um to get out of the hotel and into the park and how many people can be on them.
• 51:08
  SPEAKER_00: They are super convenient, and I'm glad that they have them.
• 51:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm glad that they're free.
• 51:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but that for me is the is the worst out of the five we have.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I agree with you.
• 51:17
  SPEAKER_01: I think they are they are definitely the worst out of it.
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_01: They have they get that number one spot for me.
• 51:22
  SPEAKER_01: And they go anywhere and everywhere you want them to go.
• 51:25
  SPEAKER_01: They're just they're just slow.
• 51:27
  SPEAKER_01: And you gotta share their ride with, you know, other strangers, and they their personal hygiene may not be to the same level as yours, and you're gonna you're gonna realize that rather quickly standing next to whoever it is you stand next to on the bus or sitting next to.
• 51:40
  SPEAKER_01: But it's uh it's certainly an option.
• 51:42
  SPEAKER_01: There's really nothing wrong with them, other than they're just you just gotta share them, and they're sometimes they're not on time, sometimes they're slow, sometimes they're down drivers, and they gotta they gotta you know change up their routes.
• 51:54
  SPEAKER_01: It's just all these logistical things that goes into it.
• 51:56
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, for me, the worst the worst option there is uh transportation.
• 52:01
  SPEAKER_01: All right, so Pete, in closing here, please stand clear of the doors.
• 52:08
  SPEAKER_00: There you have it, man.
• 52:10
  SPEAKER_00: Buses, boats, monorails, skyliners, and minivans.
• 52:13
  SPEAKER_00: The only thing we didn't do is throw mama from the train.
• 52:16
  SPEAKER_00: Five different ways to get you around property.
• 52:20
  SPEAKER_01: And somehow we turned public transportation to a 45-minute argument.
• 52:25
  SPEAKER_01: That's pretty impressive.
• 52:28
  SPEAKER_01: But here's the thing Disney transportation is actually pretty incredible when you think about it.
• 52:32
  SPEAKER_01: You're moving people between four theme parks, dozens of resorts, restaurants, entertainment areas.
• 52:37
  SPEAKER_01: And sometimes it's magical.
• 52:40
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes.
• 52:41
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 52:42
  SPEAKER_01: Until next time, we're here to give you the real deal.
• 52:44
  SPEAKER_01: This is the worst beyond the magic.